It is not only that in generalized opinion these attacks tend no longer to be considered as "crimes"; paradoxically they assume the nature of "rights", to the point that the State is called upon to give them legal recognition and to make them available through the free services of health-care personnel

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Abortion and euthanasia are thus crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize. There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws; instead there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection.

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In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia, it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to "take part in a propaganda campaign in favour of such a law, or vote for it".

the U.S. Constitution protects their right to privacy. But they may be surprised to find out that no such right is in the Constitution.

It is in the Bill of Rights, article four.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Shalom b'shem Yah'shua

18 posted on 02/07/2009 9:17:20 AM PST by Uri’el-2012
(Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their ROCK, And the Most High God their Redeemer.)

"the Right to Privacy... they may be surprised to find out that no such right is in the Constitution.

The right is explicitly acknowledged in the 4th Amend. The initial phrase in the 4th refers specifically to the right: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,..."

"Smith: The right to privacy, when originally formulated, referred to the right to have such things as ones journal or conversations kept private."

This is ridiculous, since they explicitly included persons, houses and effects. The right extended to everything, not just one's journal, or conversations.

"In 1965, in Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court found constitutional protection for the sale, distribution and use of contraceptives"

"Although the Bill of Rights does not explicitly mention "privacy", Justice William O. Douglas wrote for the majority that the right was to be found in the "penumbras" and "emanations" of other constitutional protections. Justice Arthur Goldberg wrote a concurring opinion in which he used the Ninth Amendment to defend the Supreme Court's ruling. Justice John Marshall Harlan II wrote a concurring opinion in which he argued that privacy is protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Byron White also wrote a concurrence based on the due process clause."

The only Justice to get it right was Potter Stewart. "Justice Stewart famously called the Connecticut statute "an uncommonly silly law", but argued that it was nevertheless constitutional."